Multiple can-heading machine.



B. ADRIANGE & A. GALLESUN.

MULTIPLEeGAN HEADING momma.`

APPmoATmH Hman 12113.28. 190s.

Patented July 6, 1909.

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4 AUQRNEYS".

B. ADRIANCB @L A. GALLESONL m MULTIPLE GAN HE DING MACHINE.

APPLCATION FILBDIEB. 28,1906.

Patented July 6, 1909.

ATONY J3,- ADRIANGB; & A. GIAJJLESML MULTIPLE GAN HEADING MACHINE.

APPLICATION Hmm Pnnza, 1905"' Patented July 6, 1909.

"1 SHEETS-SHEET a.

ATTORNEYS B. ADRIANGE &.A. CALLBSON.

MULTIPLE GAN HEADING MACHINE. nnmumu runnin. as, 1905.

' WITNEssEs:

B. DRINCBA A. LLESOlL MULTPLE GAN HEADING MACHINE. APLIoAHoH umn FEB@ze. 1905.

Patented July 6, 1909. 'I

1 SHEETS-SHEET 5.

ATORNEYS B. ADRIANGE a A. vCALLBSGN. MULTIPLE GAN HEADING MACHINE.

APPIIATION FILED PEB. 28, 1905.` l 6 @lemma-sum: e;

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B. ADRIA'NGB E A. GALLBSON MULTIPLE GAN HEADING MACHINE.

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i To all whom it maf] concern.;- 1

BaNJAMiN Ansinnen `Aun anos oALLEsoN i Assienon To or sRooKLYN, uNEWYoan; sain cALLEsoN sain ADRIANCE.

`MULTIPLI: CAN-uname uacnnm.

- Beit know'nthat we, BENJAMIN Annunci: and AMos CALLEsoN, citizens oftheUnited States, residing in Brooklyn, county, of Kings, and certainnew and "useful Improvements in lVIultipleCan-IIeading Machines; and wedo hereby declare the following to be a full,

clear, and exact description of the invention,`

such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains tomake and use'the same, reference being had` to the accompany# ingdrawings, and to characters yof reference marked thereon, which form apart of'this specification. 1

i Our present invention relates to multiple can-endsez`iming orcan-heading machinery,

. adaptation,

tive rotary and 'it has for its principal object to provide such acombination of a seeming mechanism `with worklfeeding means as willconduce to a very considerable increaseof out ut and consequentlyrequire less skilful an careful attention on the part otoperatives. vprefer to employ and herein describe a head mg'mechanism of the typeillustrated in our application for U. S. Letters lPatent filed June17,E1903, SerialNo. 161,777, wherein shaping (seaming) devices, meansand the means `for holding the work are so constructed and arranged thata rela- Amovement l,as totwo of them causes tlie`-shaping` devices tooperatively engagertravcl around and then leave the..

work, all in the operation of forming a seam. Our invention 1sbroadly,characterized by` a plurality of seeming units in combinationwith a leed arrangement which involves the distributing of the work tothe seaming unitsby a means which takes `work from a supply point anddelivers it to the seeming units, one after the other. In` the presentsaidmeans takes work from the supply to one seeming unit, moves back tothe supply to be replenished, takes work to the other'seaming unit, andso on. Thus while the functionof supplying one seemingv unit is beingperformed, the other can be effecting seaming, which obviously increasesthe output. from that of machines of the kind tyl ified in er. No.178,380, where the seeming units 'move to Specification oil LettersPatent. AApplication led February 28, 1905, Serial No. 247,766. p

State of New York, have invented-` their actu ating- Ths 'operation isdistinguished- Patented July `6, 1909.

to them; p i I In the accompanying drawings, Figure]` is a view of themachine in front elevation;

thereof; Fig. 3 is a top plan view; Fig. 4 isa horizontal sectional viewthe distributing table; sectional viewtaken just above the distributingtable; Fig. is a view in front elevation of said distributing table andits accessories; Fig. '7 is 'a view in `end elevation of what i is seenin Fig. 6; Fig. 8 isa vertical sectional view of the distributing table`with `its acrcessories removed; Figs. Qand 10 are plan and side views,respectively, of one of a pair of can shifting devices;gFigs. 11 and 12are part of one of the work holders; Fig. 13 isa sectional View of-oneof certain guides; Fig.

partly in section of one ofthe seamin'g units; igs. 15 and 16 are,respectively, a side view and underneath view of one of the parts andside views, respectively, each partly in section, of a portion 'of themeans for transmitting thepower from the counter-shaft to the mainshaft. Fig. 1,9 is a view in front elevation, partly in section, ofthemeans for imparting motion to the plunger shown in Figs.; 11 and 12; Fig20 is a front view of a bracket "shown in Fig. 19; Figs. 21 and22 areside and front views, respectively, of a lcertain cam shown in Fig. 19;Figs. 23and 24 are side and front views, respectively, of a part of themeans foractuating theejecting mechanism; and Fig. 25 illustrates a`detail of vthe mechanism shown in Figs. In the drawings, the frame ofthe machine is shown as' comprising a base a and an arch b restingthereon. The power' is taken into the machine by a belt c which `extendsunder pulleys d journaled` on the shaft e, which is mounted in a bracketj in the arch b, and

having a bearing at 'i in the arch band also a bearing in a bracket y'suspended from the lhase a. On the reduced lower end lc of said shaft his secured, by means ,of a vcap l screwed on said shaft, a Aworm .malso. kneyed 'to .the shaft) taken `just below Fig. 5 is a horizontal.601

-plan and side views of a plunger forming a 14 is a view partly in sideelevation and 23 and 24..

(whmhll ndsaulcap seatlin i receive the work instead of having brought iFig. 2 is a view looking'at theright-handend shown in Fig. 14; Figs. 17and 18 are frontim'V then around a pulley g on a vertical shaft la,

a cup n as a step-bearing, said cup being adjustably suspended in astirrup o, depending. from bracket y', by a set-screw p. The wormis in-`mesh with a Worin-wheel g on the main horizontal shaft r, "which isjournaled in the base and in bracket y'.

s is an oil cup suspended from bracket y' and disposed under the bearingfor shaft r in said bracket and under shaft 71..

tis a table carried by shafts u arranged for vertical adjustment inpedestals c resting on base a and adapted to be lfixed in said pedestalsagainst vertical displacement by 'setscrews fw. In order to jack thetable up to' any desired height., the set-screws are loosened and thenadjusting shafts which 'bear against the under side of the table andhave threaded engagement with the pedestals i), are turned, saidshafts'-being connected by a sproe'ketand chain arrangement y. so thatthey operate together. One of the shafts a; may carry a hand-wheel zwhereby to rotate it. The table is provided with two supply chutes 2which ,incline toward it and discharge chutes' which incline away fromthe table, alternating with the chutes 2. y

4 are guides which forni the sides of the chutes 2 and the back wall ofthe table, they being right angular' in form (see Fig. 5) andadjustable, to vary the width ot said chutes v'and the de th (i. c.,front to back dimension) of the tab e, by means of securing screws 5arranged in oblique slots 6 in the guides. Since the cans and theircovers are of the laterally lianged type, the bottom portion of i eachguide 4 is rabbeted on the inside. as at 7, Fig. 13, to receive the canVflanges.

The top of the table has slightly elevated can slide-ways S, iiushapproach to each 'of which at the back thereof from each chute 2 isafforded by a illet .Oisee Figs. 5 and 7). Substantially at the ends ofthese slide-Ways. are openings 10, which mark the positions of the canswhile being seamed or headed. Each opening 10 is of slightly greaterdimensions than the cans, and projecting into it with their top surfacessubstantially flush with the top surface of the slide-way arecansupporting fins 11. The cans are slid onto these fins and thereremain until they are passed to the seaming or heading operation. Themeans for moving the cans to this position may now be described.

The front of the table if has a horizontal rib or flange 12 extending'along its lower edge, and to this ilange is secured a plate 13 formingwith the front faceof said table a guide-way 14. ln this guide-wayslides the vertical portion of a cross-seetionallyl L- shaped rail 15whose horizontal portion is formed with a longitudinal groove 16 in thetop'surface thereof. Clips 17, having ribs 18 ,'which fit into saidgroove, are secured on the rail 15 by set-screws, there being four pairsof these clips, two corresponding to the right-hand chute 2 and two tothe left-hand chute 2. To said clips are secured, as by Iscrews,'can-Shifters 1t) whose inner ends are recessed to receive the cornersbfthe cans, as at 20, and are formedvwith. projecting cansupporting iins21; said clips extend over the lower front portion of the table t, sothat the tops of their fins are not appreciably, if any, higher than thetop surface ot the slide-Ways 8. The rail 15 -has a reciprocatingmovement corresponding to the distance ironia point directly oppositethe middle of either chute 2 to the center of one of the correspondingtwo openings 10, and the four pairs of can-Shifters are so distancedfrom each other that, with respect to either the rightor lefthand two,one pair iii each alternately opposes itself in t ie reciprocations ofsaid rail to the chute 2 and to one of the two o Jenings 1.0corresponding to said chute.

T e rail is reciprocated from a laterally pitched cam 22 on shaft 2through the medium of a lever 23 vfulcruined in the base a and carryinganti-friction rolls 24- embracing said cani and a itnian 2,3 connectingsaid lever with the rail). l

25 are plungers vertically alined Vith the openings 10 and guided forvertical movenient in brackets 26.1iiounted in the base a; the heads 27of these plungers Vform thev lower members of the can holding means orchucks and theyr are cut out, as at 28, so :is to pass the lins 11. and21. To each plunger is bolted a sleeve 29 carrying trunnions 30, 31 onwhich are antitriction rolls 52 which receive beh tween them the lateralcani-way "3 ol a cam 34 on shaft r; the trunnion is guided in a slot- 35of the bracket 26.

The seaming units are four in number. two to each chute 2. v units: 35is a post formed with a ilange 37 :it its lower end and secured in thearch b by a. set-screw 37. A revoluble disk is supported by this'flanged post and has peripheral gear teeth l). On the disk is journaledan annulus-4() formed with peripheral gear teeth 41 and having twoperipheral ca n1- ways i2 and e3, said cam-ways being relatively betweenthe teeth of the disk and annulus. At diaiiietrically opposite points inthefdisk are arranged pairs of levers which are substantially alike, sodescription oi' but one is necessary. y

'44 is a lever l'ulciumed in the disk, its fulcrum being a boss lormedintegrally with it Aand carrying a nut 45 tor securing the lever inplace; the free endfol this lever carries :i roll -16 which rims in agroove 47m the under face of a block 48 which co-acts, as the upperchuck with one ot' the heads 27 oi' the pluni gers aforesaid to hold thecan, said groove having substantially a shape correspmnling to thecontour oi the can to beopcratedupon. Block 48 has a tubular spindle 4S)which projects up through post 313 and is secured l'll) '10 they beingexactly csr/,sie

in the same bya nut 50. Lever 44 and ani other lever 51 are pivotedtogether at apas at 52; the free/endet lever 51 carries a knurl 53,`while its other end carries a stud `54" which through a slot 5,5 in theulcrum lever lHand. carries at its upper end an antifriction roll 56,'Two such mechanisms as this belong to each seeming unit, alike except'that the knurl 53 fortheone isshapedto perform the the other is shapedto Levers 51 are directly involved in shaping the metal; levers 44` 15-simply serve as their supports. 4The former direction of movement fromthe latten, but the direct actuation shape 'the` metal `isim-Iproximately their middle portion;

projects u portion o 4primary bending `while iinish the seaming.

take their general thereof4 in order` `to parted thereto by the cams 42and 43, the 42 l.While the ,roll .of the other engages cam 43. No broadl of this nature' is made in the present instance, provision to lmadeinour application first above mentioned. "The power to units is vtakenapinion 57 whichl meshes with the gear-teeth on the disks 38 of,

`It is transmitted to the gear-teeth of the disksof the other units byidler pinions .58,asshown inFig. `1, and to the gear-teeth 41fonthe'annuli 40 by idler pinions 59 each `of which connects the 'two annu-liof each pair of seeming units. t The is such Ithat the disks of all theunits rotate `faster than the annuli, withthe consequence thatthe rolls56 are actuated by the cams 42 `and 43 Thus while said 40 levers aremoving about` the work they are either pressed by the camsagainst it orper- 0 roll 56 of the one engaging ca claim for -a mechanism, per se,

that end having been drive these several seaming from the shaft vhthrough the `two adjacent units.`

35 pitch of the gearing throughout and so actuate levers 51.

mitted to recede.

60 is a plunger crean-ejector extending and normallii7 pressed p e topof bell-crank levers62 which are in common actuated from a bar 63 `Thisbar is `connected by a bell-crank ,lever itman 65 pivotally connectedpivoted in the base a and anti rictlon rolls'67 whichV receive I theateral flange 68 ofl a cam 69 secured on through each sp1ndle 49upwardly byspring 61. Against t these plungers impinge 64 with a vwith acrani() `66,

car ing vshaft r.

10 is a clutch of p '55 disconnectively connecting pulley' clutch.

being received shifters 19.

some common typeor with shaft h, and 71 is a handle oroperatlng this theShifters 19 moving the 'two first cans on cams 34 then raise theplungers 25 the heads of which press the cansjup against the chucks 48.At this. time, seeming units involved are back, permitting the `can torise, but indue time they are pressed inwardly by the cams 42 and 43and' effect the seamlng. Meantime, "cam -22 has shifted the rail 15 tothe left,` the two second cans being likewise shifted by the devices 19.This brings said cans over'the fins 11 left-hand lplungers rise underthe action 'of their cams 34. to lift the cans into the operative`control of the correspondingseaming units, which latter ultimately`effect the seaming of said cans. "Meantime, the cams for the tworight-hand plungers'hav'e dropped, lowering the now-finished two iirstcans onto the insll. Theshifting devices now `them the third two cans,-which are to go through` the same operation as their predecessors. Asthese cans `approach theopen ings .10, the 'spiace the finished cans tothe rightan onto the chutes 3, down which lastoperation is reproduced byp two cans on the third two', at the left-hand openings 10, and so on.It willlbe ofcourse understood that the cam 69 is so timed with relationto the operation above described that at `the proper moment it causes"the plnngers A to be depressed to cause `the finf` chucks 48.`

can-shifters and lwhich is close enough to the back wall of the table tto prevent a can `from latter isdirectlyo posed to the chute 2'.

Having thus-ful "described our invention, what We claim andr'desire tosecure by Letters Patent is: j 1. The 'combination of a plurality ofseams ing units, a 4units "havin tion relative y' to the a substantiallyconstant loca- A p supplying means and a means for moving the work fromthe supply means'to theseamng units, alternately, said means beingmovable fromthe sup ly means to the seeming units, substantieJ ly A asdescribed. ,Y 2. The combination of a plurality of seaming units, a worksupply means, said seeming units having a substantially constantlocation relatively to the `supplying means 'and a means for moving thework from the supply means to the seamingunits,` alternately, said`.tween the supply means4 and, alternately, the

seeming4 units, substantially as described.

to the -fins 11 overthe openings 10. The4 the knurls of Vthe two` of theleft-hand openmgs 10, whereupon the move again from left to right,carrying *with yished cans A'to detach themselvesfrom the 72,` isaguard-which'nnectsthe two adl jacent can-shifters 19 infeach two pairof saidV `the latter slide, leaving the machine. This the fourth Islipping down in position to be engaged.' by `said can-shifters until`the proper pair of the u work supply means, saidlseaming means beingmovable back and forth` be- 3. The combinationof a plurality of seamingunits, a work supply located substantially between said units and saidseaniing units liavingca substantially constant location relativelytosaid supplying means, and

a means for moving the work from the supply to the said seeming units,alternately substantially as described.

4. The combination of a guide-way, a plurality of seaming units having asubstan-v` tially constant location relatively to said guide-way, ameans for delivering the work onto said guide-way, `and a means forsliding the Workover said guide-way from the point of its delivery ontosaidyguide-way to the said seaming units, alternately, substantially. asdescribed. j

5i The combination of a guide-way, a plurality of seaming units having asubstantially constant location relatively'to' said guide- Wa'y, a meansfor delivering the work onto said guide-way ata point substantiallybemoving the work from the point of its delivtween said seammg units,Aand a means for eryon-to the guide-Way tothe said seeming units,substantially as described.,

l 6. The combination of a work" supplying means, a plurality of seemingunits having a substantiallyv constant location relatively to saidsupplying means, and means for movlng' the work from the supplying meansinto ply means being substantially midway tially as described.

the, operative control of the seani'ing units alternately, substantiallyas d.escribe d. 7. The combination 'of a worlr "supplymeans, a pluralityof seeming units andwsaid seeming units having a substantially con--stent location relatively tosaid supflying means, the point of deliveryof the Worli'slpetween said seeming units, and a means for .moving thework from the delivery point of the supply means into the operativecontrol of the seeming units, said means comprising alternating workshifting members spaced from each other` a distance corresponding to thedistance between the supply means delivery point and each o said units,substan- 8. The combination-of a guide-Way, a lurality of seaming unitshaving a substantially l to said guideconstant location relatively Way,a means for delivering the work onto 1 chuck, substantially asdescribed.

` means forrmovin said guide-way at a point substantially be-V v tweensaid seaming units and areciprocating i 'and theseamlngmeansbeing'located at dit?- ferent horizontal planes, a work-chuck o1'.holder movable from the guide-way'toward the seaming means, and viceversa, and al means for moving the work over Way from the point ofdeliverythereon 'to the j*10. The combination of a -guide-way, a"plurality of seeming units, 'a means for dethe ,guideivering thework'ontosaid-guide-way at' a point substantially between vthe seamingunits, means, coactive with each seeming unit, for holding the Work;and'areci ro-atory the work over t e guideway from the wor receivingpoint thereof to said chucks, alternately, substantially as 'de'-scribed. f ll. The combination vof 'a guide-way hav# ing verticalopenings therethrou lll, a means' for delivering the work onto saibetween said openings, se'amiig' units" loiy cated in' a differentlhorizontal plane from thatof theguide-way, awork-holder inovable`through each -opening "and (zo-'active witheach seami'ng unit 'toholdthe work, one for eachseaming unil-),and'a'means for moving the workvover 'tlieg'ide-way from the work receiving'p substantially asdescribed.` 12. The" combination seeming units, a Workfsupplymg means, aworkshift' means, the latter having af'rei cip-rocating movenientbetween the seeming units and-past thefsupplyiiigf'means, vand guide-wayoint thereof to saidopenings,

means for causing said work shifting means AMosoALnnsoN, 'i

Witnesses; WrLLrAM'C. Henn,`

HENRY A; lHiLLIPs.

